Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within

2010 [PORTUGUESE]

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

33
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 91% · 46 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 91% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 8.0/10 10 91447 91.4K

police drug trafficking affectation grave penitentiary melancholy

Plot summary

After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor.

Director

José Padilha Photo
José Padilha

Top cast

Wagner Moura Photo
Wagner Moura as Lt. Colonel Nascimento
Fabrício Boliveira Photo
Fabrício Boliveira as Marreco
Maria Ribeiro Photo
Maria Ribeiro as Rosane
Tainá Müller Photo
Tainá Müller as Clara
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.03 GB
1280*694
Portuguese 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 55 min
Seeds 13
2.12 GB
1920*1040
Portuguese 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 55 min
Seeds 32

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Xstal 7 / 10

High Speed Dialogue Dilution...

... which, if you watch with subtitles, results in you spending almost all of the film reading and missing a lot of the action and expression, perhaps a dubbed version would be a better option. That said, what you do get is an ultraviolent depiction of the corruption endemic within the governance of the city of Rio. How closely this reflects reality is difficult to know, you would like to think it's exaggerated but whenever people are involved in anything these days there are seldom any winners - we just seem to aimlessly grin a bear it, even when it's at the top of the tree.
Reviewed by TdSmth5 9 / 10

Entertaining political action thriller

Elite Squad 2 continues where part 1 left off. The movie starts in the present with Nascimento walking out of a hospital and driving into a trap. He then tells us how he got to that point. At the end we return to that point and find out what happens during the shootout and its aftermath.We learn of a raid to a prison that houses all the major drug dealers who continue their dealings inside jail. There is an orchestrated mutiny and most drug dealers are killed. A human rights advocate and professor rushes to the jail to mediate. But there's little he can do. The massacre causes a political uproar. And politicians seek to distance themselves from the violent elite squad BOPE. That is until they realize how popular a tough stance against crime is with the people. So Nascimento gets a political promotion, he's now placed in charge of intelligence. A smart move by the politicians. They promote him while getting him out of the picture.With the main drug dealers out of the way, someone has to fill the power vacuum in the slums and keep order. Corrupt policemen realize how much money there is to be made in that position. Basically, they get their share of every deal that is done on the streets, whether it's a drug deal or a pirate cable TV installation. Then they assault a precinct to steal all the weapons. The corrupt governor who is running for re-election, an associate, and a TV commentator plan then to organize a massive attack on the slums, to recover the weapons, which according their media campaign were stolen by regular criminals and hidden in the slums.Nascimento's intelligence knows very well that the drug dealers don't have any weapons. He tries to argue against the operation, but the politicians won't hear any of it. The operation fails to find weapons. This should sound familiar. Nascimento quips that it should have been called "Operation Iraq." When his friend Matias becomes a victim of the machine, Nascimento decides to confront the corruption head on. He gets the unwilling help of a reporter working with the human rights activist who is now a senator. He's also married to Nascimento ex-wife. Nascimento's son lives with them.With all that we return to the shootout in the present day.The success of this movie is the smart mixture of political intrigue and corruption with high octane action. For some reason, I was hoping for more action, as this director really excels at shooting those scenes. The portrayal of the political mafia as a bunch of vain fools is accurate and funny. The middle portion of this movie is somewhat flat, I didn't connect with it, but that could have been because of the subtitles that race across the screen and don't allow you to focus on the movie itself.The bigger problem are all the forced coincidences that are so convenient for the writers to include. The ex-wife happens to marry the human rights senator. He son happens to hear when the reporter tells the senator that she thinks the police stole the weapons, and so on.Despite some minor flaws this series is still outstanding and almost epic.
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